Brusquembille

Brusquembille or Briscambille[1] is a historical, French, 3-card trick-and-draw game for two to five players using a 32-card piquet pack.

Taking the first description and the 1721 Dutch reprint at face value, tens ranked between jacks and nines in terms of trick-taking power.

The descriptions of the game generally ended with a paragraph that remarked on the unclear etymology of its name.

[3] Briscola, a close relative of Brusquembille without the side-payments and played with a full Italian pack, is still very popular in the south of Europe.

But the family of ace–ten card games, of which Brusquembille is the earliest known representative, has gradually adopted numerous innovations such as "marriages" between king and queen of trumps, jacks and or queens as fixed trumps, widows, and various bidding and auction mechanisms.

These have turned it into a multifaceted family, containing highly successful games such as Skat, Pinochle, Sixty-six, Klaberjass and Belote.